Great Western Mining has just appointed Ed Loye as chief executive. A recent raise of more than £3 million has given him an ample warchest with which to get down to work on the company's suite of exploration assets in Nevada. Top of the agenda is to work up the tungsten opportunity at Defender, itself part of a large skarn which links to the company's existing copper resource at M2, a couple of kilometres away. Drilling is planned in the summer, and there will likely be plenty of newsflow in the run up to that work